LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced more than $735,000 in funding for 12 county projects to improve county road systems in the state.
Each project will receive funding through the Arkansas Unpaved Roads Program with the goal to protect water quality, enhance stormwater management and improve drainage along county roads.
The following counties will receive funding:
- Benton County – $75,000 to elevate one mile of roadway, install cable mats and enlarge culverts for better stormwater management.
- Calhoun County – $75,000 to raise an existing bridge by two feet and install box and round culverts for improved drainage.
- Dallas County – $54,198 to elevate 1,056 feet of road and upgrade drainage with a double box culvert and six cross pipes.
- Fulton County – $37,352 to improve ditches and turnouts, stabilize eroded roadbed sections, and install two cross pipes along a two-mile stretch.
- Hot Spring County – $60,000 to replace a round culvert with two bottomless arch culverts to improve water flow.
- Independence County – $56,109 to improve drainage by raising 2,700 feet of road, reshaping ditches, adding ditch checks to slow water flow and installing seven cross pipes.
- Lawrence County – $45,680 to relocate 1,830 feet away from a riverbank, construct the new section on top of a levee and establish a riparian buffer.
- Lincoln County – $74,894 to raise and widen 1,800 feet of road, replace undersized culverts with triple box culverts and install twelve cross pipes.
- Scott County – $57,446 to raise and lengthen a free-span bridge, adding headwalls, wing walls and three relief culverts.
- Sebastian County – $49,459 to replace a deteriorated metal pipe with reinforced concrete culverts and improve water flow with headwalls and wingwalls.
- Sevier County – $75,000 to improve drainage and raise the roadbed along 500 feet, including culvert replacement and additional pipe installation to manage stormwater.
- Woodruff County – $74,867 to raise one mile of road and install fourteen culverts to manage runoff.
The Arkansas Unpaved Roads Program works with county judges and road crews to improve county roads and reduce sediment flowing into water sources, officials said. The program receives $300,000 annually…